Word: coughlinism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crusaders, young men's temperance organization, used $1,000 bills in stage money to invite the public to an anti-inflation rally. Held on the same night as a meeting for Father Coughlin (see below), the meeting was barely able to fill one half of Carnegie Hall...
...Democracy, in bringing us other things, has clearly cost us this. Professor Sprague did all that was possible in laying his case before the administration. And he did all that was possible in laying it before the people, but it has already been forgotten in the welter of Father Coughlin and the liquor laws. Mr. Warren now has the monetary inner track, and Mr. Ezekiel spins agricultural codes with Oriental quickness and fecundity, but it can scarcely be argued that their position is not more precarious than that of, say, a minor department head in the Bureau of Fisheries...
East, published in Shanghai by the Shanghai Post-Mercury Co., edited by Joseph Coughlin who used to run the Carmel, Calif. Carmelite, is the "Newsweekly of the Orient." It copies TIME'S makeup, runs a brief department called "The Week in Miniature" as well as a portrait on the cover...
...unlooked-for bit of spleen was vented by the Typographical Union, which denounced Father Charles Edward Coughlin of Detroit, radio preacher, for building his Shrine of the Little Flower with non-union labor, printing his tracts in non-union plants, advocating the open shop. The typographers asked the Federation "to find him no longer entitled to financial support from any trade unionist...
...Father Coughlin, who observed in his testimony that "the U. S. is no Jesus Christ," rumbled irrelevantly: "If the U. S. Government is so craven as to rest its case on this testimony, which was given by more or less prejudiced bankers . . . then I am very much afraid that the people of this nation and of Detroit will begin to classify our Government as an Archangel Capone...